~/.ansible/roles

/usr/ansible/roles

./roles

/etc/ansible/roles

/usr/share/ansible/roles

/var/ansible/roles

Ansible playbooks can be very similar: code used in one playbook can be useful in other playbooks also

An Ansible role is composed of multiple folders, each of which contain several YAML files

By default, they have a main.yml file, but they can have more than one when needed

Creates a unique structure that is not standardized across all Ansible roles

To make it easy to re-use the code, roles can be used